SourceForge.net Gets a Shiny New Look

Re:SourceForge.net Gets a Shiny New Look by recoil on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:48PM (#2286919)

Just spent about 10 minutes searching for how to get the source code for a project and I'm utterly unable to find it. Care to enlighten us all? Do you need to be logged in?

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Re:SourceForge.net Gets a Shiny New Look by hallmark on Friday March 04, 2011 @12:11AM (#2287080)

It may depend on the project, but here's one positive example. I went to the home page, then clicked on one of the featured projects. I've used Chicken of the VNC before, so there I went: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/

Next, click on 'Develop.' On the new page under Repositories > CVS, there is a link to 'browse code': http://cotvnc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cotvnc/

Agreed, it is definitely not GitHub.

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Re:SourceForge.net Gets a Shiny New Look by recoil on Friday March 04, 2011 @02:09AM (#2287293)

Thanks! It definitely seems to depend on the project. If there's no repository configured then you can't browse the source. I made the mistake of assuming everything would have a repository though. Some projects (e.g. 7zip) seem to rely on you going to a separate home page and finding the source there instead.

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